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ludis

ludis is a Latin form of ludus, meaning “game, play; school”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun.

It can also be a form of ludius, “(ludus) game; school; (ludi) public games”.

Found 168 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.30: … reliquum omne tempus huius anni me vobis remissurum putastis, ut, cum horis nostris nos essemus usi, tu binis ludis interpositis quadragesimo post die responderes, deinde ita tempus duceretur ut a M’. Glabrione praetore et a …

Ovid, Heroides 16.152: Ludis et es nudis femina mixta viris.

Plautus, Mostellaria 5.1.1080b: Abi, lúdis me, credo haud negat.

All forms of ludus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.